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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They keep returning because they know hate is powerful and mobilizes people to vote

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/10/2026

The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My husband scored 3 tickets to the Banana Bowl tomorrow and I've never been more excited to go to a sporting event in my life

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There was a moment while I was watching Cats: The Jellicle Ball that my brain connected vogueing with the 2025 study suggesting a higher incidence of hEDS & HSD in transgender people & now really want someone to study how hypermobility within ball culture.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most of my joints are good. They're just not in the right place because my collagen is shot

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If a majority of your friends are in at least one or those circles, then good chance a majority of your friends are in two of those circles

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People's needs need to be met, in my opinion, before assisted suicide is considered actual autonomy.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Around eight percent of all deaths in Québec specifically are assisted suicide. You just need a disability to qualify. I couldn't finish my undergrad at McGill because the wait time to get into a specialist was so bad that I came back to America. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Why Quebec continues to shape the Canadian conversation around MAID | CBC News

Doctors say Quebec paved the way for medical assistance in dying in Canada and influenced federal MAID legislation, passed by the House of Commons 10 years ago to allow eligible adults to request the ...

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the choice is between living with severe pain that could be reduced if the system didn't place access to necessary care out of reach or assisted suicide, the system has long ago taken away autonomy. Because autonomy requires the option to access the care that may reduce the pain.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Modern gynecology is rooted in horror

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.

Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But roundabouts, rotaries & traffic circles provide a great opportunity to quickly check if you're being followed by the feds

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I never met my grandfather because he died in his 50's. He drove a truck delivering bread overnight and into the early morning. Night shifts greatly increase risk of early death, including a drastic increase in cardiovascular risk.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In NY, there is a bill that would repeal the voluntary intoxication loophole in rape law. It pass the NY Senate unanimously the past 2 years. But one man--assembly speaker Carl Heastie--has blocked it from getting a vote in the NY Assembly. @inaeoh.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started

Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the very near future, AI will revolutionize health care by running hundreds of blood tests directly from your phone or tablet without even one drop of blood.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You definitely won the internet today

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sounds like just another day during perimenopause to me

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was an American "family values" evangelical Christian organization.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two because they have a second dose ready to go if the first dose does not kill the person. It isn't one to sedate and then one to kill.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I often think of an interviewee for a grad school project related to death penalty moratoriums who replied that the (supposedly Christian faith) organization he represented would not support a policy "that delays justice," even if the policy prevents innocent people from being put to death.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the comparison is incorrect

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Basically "freedom and rights for us at the expense of you!"

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tennessee's one drug protocol uses one drug. That means there are not two steps of first sedating and then killing the inmate. There is saline followed immediately by pentobarbital in doses that are typically lethal.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's just like when they say free speech while silencing anyone who disagrees with them

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A long, long time ago, in the early days of 2026, a music duck took a nap on a bus from NY to DC and awoke to find a new bus driver was refusing to take them to DC. That was a really fun live Bluesky thread for those of us who weren't on the bus.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Any details on how they differentiated those with long covid and those with symptoms from a different chronic condition?

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if you work for a union or labor org and would like to hire me to write/edit your newsletter, I’d love to hear from ya!

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it seemed like a major newspaper making some conflict at a random dyke bar a national news piece in a push to depict trans and higher-risk folks as inherently unreasonable was suspect af...well, it was. Y'all who were breathlessly sharing that story? You were just being played. Have some sense.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a ruse to worsen the risk pool of ACA plans so they can gut the law. Slash overall spending on premiums subsidies while increasing rates which increases individual subsidies & therefore provides another excuse to cut the subsidies for being too high. Quite cunning.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.

And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not a shock that the ableist joke at the start was followed shortly with misogynistic jokes

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 16/09/2026

Big lawsuit filed by the family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after being denied abortion care. Argues Texas' abortion bans violate the state constitution's right to life and should be struck down. More soon on @autonomynews.co abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u...

screenshot from page 60 of the complaint:
Not one of Ms. Walker’s medical providers sought to rely on the exception to Texas’s abortion bans or offered Ms. Walker’s life-saving abortion. To the extent Ms. Walker’s medical providers believed that she was never sick enough to qualify for the exception, Texas’s abortion bans, combined with the associated definitions of “abortion,” “reasonable medical judgment,” and “medical emergency,” are unconstitutionally vague in violation of the due course of law provision of Article I, Section 19 and thus unenforceable. See Paxton v. Annunciation House, Inc., 719 S.W.3d at 589.
208. In addition, to the extent Texas’s abortion bans and associated definitions were a proximate cause of Ms. Walker’s death, they violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution and are unconstitutional. Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. ch. 6-1/2; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 170A.001-170A.007; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 171.201-171.212; Tex. Health & Safety Code § 245.002.
209. Finally, to the extent Texas’s statutory scheme, taken as a whole, cumulatively denied Ms. Walker her right to life without due process of law, Texas violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution

https://abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Walker-Petition.pdf

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No thesis, but I effectively had a thesis project senior year of college and I can definitely get on a soapbox about how Look Back in Anger by John Osborne can be directed from a feminist point of view

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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It was absolutely a targeted attack on Black women and we are the only ones regularly talking about it

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They were in their car parked in the alley behind my building for hours

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happened once when I had a severe headache and was trying to study for the bar

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was moved by the writer's story. I understand why she makes the argument that is effectively anything to stop Paxton. But, most trans voices I have read over the last day have pushed against "vote blue no matter who" when that means throwing trans people under the bus.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I made a bad call yesterday. I believe it's vital that, as a cisperson, I listen to and elevate the voices of transgender people on trans issues. My bad call was sharing only one thing on Talarico & wording it to suggest I agreed with her & that the writer spoke for all trans Texans.

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Dania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am sorry. I made a mistake here. I am deleting my post and it is not to try and hide what I posted, but because I actually think it can cause unintended harm. I wasn't trying to say her view is the right view, but I clearly worded it in a way that suggests that.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Any Democratic strategist advocating for the party to throw trans athletes (especially kids) under the bus should be drummed out of politics. It’s complete malpractice to accept right-wing framing on literally any issue.

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